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The Arkadiko Bridge is the oldest bridge still used

The Mycenaean corbel arch was built around 1300 BC in Greece The bridge near the road from Tiryns to Epidaurus was built from limestone blocks without mortar, using a corbel arch. It carried chariots on a causeway and still stands about 22 metres long and 5.6 metres wide. Local people have used it for millennia, and it remains a crossing rather than a ruin behind a fence. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Mycenaean corbel arch was built around 1300 BC in Greece. The figure is taken from Greek Ministry of Culture, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.